Sunday, March 22, 2015

What Can Consumers Expect from their Winter Energy Bills this Year?

Bruce McDowell

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With the official start of autumn just behind us, experts from theAmerican Gas Association (AGA) will be available to discuss what the winter holds for natural gas customers. AGA will unveil its Winter Fuel Outlook and examine market influencers just ahead of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Winter Fuels Outlook, which is the federal government’s forecast for what it will cost to heat an average home with various fuels this winter. In the face of hurricane season, peak winter demand, snow storms and other severe weather events, natural gas can offer a reliable, affordable and clean, domestically abundant energy source for customers across the nation. AGA experts will discuss how natural gas can help meet our nation’s 21st century energy needs this winter and for decades to come. Our nation has seen a fundamental shift in the natural gas marketplace. Advances in American technology have unlocked vast new sources of natural gas resources. As a result, domestic natural gas supplies are at an all-time high, and the future supply of natural gas in total has doubled since 1990. Today, the United States is the leading natural gas producer in the world and with continued technological advances that figure is expected to continue to grow. Our domestic abundance of clean natural gas is delivered via the safest energy delivery system in the nation. Emissions from natural gas systems are low and getting lower, representing a small share of annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, with evidence pointing toward a declining trend. This trend is bolstered in part by continued efforts on the part of the natural gas industry to upgrade and modernize the natural gas pipeline network to enhance safety. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, with the lowest carbon content and fewer impurities than other fuels. Despite a 70 percent increase in households using natural gas over the past four decades, there has been virtually no growth in carbon dioxide emissions among residential and commercial consumers. Natural gas customers continue to reduce household consumption and carbon emissions dramatically by taking steps such as weatherizing their homes, using energy-efficient appliances and installing programmable thermostats.

Bruce McDowell, Managing Director, Policy Analysis at the American Gas Association, which represents over 200 local energy utility companies that deliver natural gas to more than 65 million homes, businesses and industries throughout the United States
Date Recorded: 10/1/2013
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